Harry Reid: “It is clear that Congressional Republicans stand alone in opposition to troop redeployments, apart from the American…”

He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.

I didn’t have success because of my good looks, or because I was a genius. I had success because I worked harder than anybody else.

But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.

Get rid of the filibuster. It`s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis` funeral, it`s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It`s very bad.